#THE NAGA HILLS-TUENSANG AREA ACT, 1957 
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##ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS 
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SECTIONS 

1. Short title and commencement. 
2. Formation of Naga Hills-Tuensang Area. 
3. Amendment of the Sixth Schedule to the Constitution. 
4. Amendment of the Delimitation Order. 
5. [Repealed.]. 
6. Provision as to the sitting member of Parliament. 
7. Territorial extent of laws not to be affected. 



#THE NAGA HILLS-TUENSANG AREA ACT, 1957 

##ACT NO. 42 OF 1957 

[29th November, 1957.] 

An Act  to  provide  for  the  formation  of  the  Naga  Hills-Tuensang  Area  of  Assam  as  an 
  administrative unit. 

  BE it enacted by Parliament in the Eighth Year of the Republic of India as follows:— 

1. **Short title and commencement.**—(1) This Act may be called the Naga Hills-Tuensang Area 
Act, 1957. 

(2) It  shall  come  into  force  on  such  date as the Central Government may, by notification in  the 
Official Gazette, appoint. 

2. **Formation of Naga Hills-Tuensang Area.**—As from the commencement of this Act, there shall 
be  formed  a  new  administrative  unit  in  the  State  of  Assam  by  the  name  of  Naga  Hills-Tuensang  Area 
comprising  the  tribal  areas  which  at  such  commencement  were  known  as  the  Naga  Hills  District  and 
Tuensang Frontier Division of the North East Frontier Agency. 

3. **Amendment  of  the  Sixth  Schedule  to  the  Constitution.**—In  the  Sixth  Schedule  to  the 
Constitution, in paragraph 20,— 

  (a) after sub-paragraph (2A), the following sub-paragraph shall be inserted, namely:— 

     “(2B) The Naga Hills-Tuensang Area shall comprise the areas which at the commencement of 
this Constitution were known as the Naga Hills District and the Naga Tribal Area.”; 

  (b) in  sub-paragraph  (3), after the  words  “Administrative  area”, the  brackets  and  words  “(other 
than the Naga Hills-Tuensang Area)” shall be inserted; 

  (c) in Part A of the Table, item 4 shall be omitted; and 

  (d) in Part B of the Table, for item 2, the following item shall be substituted, namely:— 

     “2. The Naga Hills-Tuensang Area.”. 

4. **Amendment of the Delimitation Order.**—In  the  Delimitation  of  Parliamentary  and  Assembly 
Constituencies Order, 1956,— 

  (a) in the First Schedule, in the entry in column 3 against serial No. 37, the words “Naga Hills”, 
shall be omitted; and 

  (b) in the Second Schedule, in the Part relating to Assam, the heading “Naga Hills District” and 
all entries against serial Nos. 16, 17 and 18 shall be omitted. 

5. *[Amendment of the Representation of the People Act, 1950.] Rep. by the Repealing and Amending 
Act, 1960 (58 of 1960), s. 2 and the First Schedule (w.e.f.* 26-12-1960). 

6. **Provision as to the sitting member of Parliament.**—Notwithstanding the alteration in the extent 
of the  Autonomous  Districts  Parliamentary  constituency  in  Assam  effected  by  section  4,  the  sitting 
member of the House of the People representing that constituency shall be deemed to have been elected to 
the House of the People by that constituency as so altered. 

7. **Territorial extent of laws not to be affected.**—The provisions of section 2 shall not be deemed to 
have effected any change in the areas to which any law in force immediately before the commencement 
of  this  Act  extends  or  applies,  and  territorial references  in  any  such  law to  the  Naga  Hills  District, the 
Naga  Tribal  Area  or  the  Tuensang  Frontier  Division  shall,  until  otherwise  provided  by  a  competent 
legislature or other competent authority, continue to have the same meaning. 

*Explanation.*—In this section, law means any law, ordinance, regulation, order, bye-law, rule, scheme, 
notification or other instrument having the force of law in India or any part thereof.